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So I got a PS3 recently and I'm making a list of all the poo poo that I have to get because I'm a PC gamer and haven't played any of the games that are exclusive to the consoles. My PC is fairly beefy so I have no interest in playing PS2 games on my PS3, I can get their PS2 counterparts cheaper and emulate them in HD. So far I own: Demon's Souls Metal Gear Solid 4 Nier Everything that's free on PS Plus I want to own: Bayonetta Red Dead Redemption Dragon's Dogma Journey Enslaved Heavy Rain(I thought this game was supposed to be dog poo poo but my sigoth really wants to play it) The Last Guardian(if it ever comes out) Maybe Yakuza games?? What else should I get? I don't know if I'll like Uncharted, if it's just shoot 30 guys, watch a cutscene and maybe a scripted sequence where a bridge collapses and Nathan Drake grabs a ledge, shoot 30 guys, etc I'm probably not interested. I'm open to other suggestions though.
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Housh posted:Pfft. This guy thinks he's too good for the Uncharted series. I was watching an LP of the second game and it didn't look like a game I would like playing 
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Dec 15, 2012 23:35
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Krad posted:God of War/Infamous series. I have the PS2 God of War games. They're alright but unless GoW3 is something totally different I'm just going to skip it for now. I have Infamous 2 through PS Plus, is there anything wrong with it versus the first game or am I good to go? a shameful boehner posted:It's more than that. If you ever liked action-adventure platformers with a side of puzzles, you'll like Uncharted a lot. There's more to it than just watching an LP. There's a tactility, for want of a better word, that Uncharted does so much better than any other franchise. Everything flows incredibly well, the dialogue is perfect, and the graphics are the best there has been on a console to date. The entire series, and 2 especially. My recommendations: Streets of Rage 2 is on PSN. I am stoked. It'll be slightly more convenient for me than getting it on Steam. Don't think I'm going to get MK9(I already have two fighters through PS Plus, SFIVAE and KOF13) and I'll probably get RF:G on PC. Dead Space is great, already played them both though. Thanks. blackguy32 posted:Valkyria Chronicles which is a decent but easily breakable strategy game and Little Big Planet which is a weird controlling but quirky and interesting platformer with custom content. Ah yeah, I have LBP2 through Plus as well(drat that's a hell of a package) so that's covered. Valkyria Chronicles sounds cool and I have some friends who swear by it so I'll add that to the list. BlindNinja posted:Comment/avatar match complete. That third game has an awesome name so I'll check that out. Pixeljunk Monsters sounds neat as well, since I like TD games. Alright, you guys convinced me re: Uncharted. I'll give it a shot, I'm sure it'll be cheap anyway.
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Dec 15, 2012 23:52
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Question Mark Mound posted:I've noticed that when the rear end in a top hat bridge dragon kills baddies I get the souls from it, so I've spent the last hour just getting those guys to respawn and levelling myself up for free. FYI there's no disadvantage to doing this but Dark Souls doesn't require it since you can beat the game at level 1, you get plenty of souls, and upgrading your shield and your weapon is more important anyway.
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Dec 16, 2012 19:28
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You should use those Soul of a (Lost Undead, etc) items every time you want to level up or otherwise spend your souls. Just don't use the boss souls(they'll have the boss's name) or the firekeeper souls like that. The first blacksmith has two shields good enough to carry you through the game, although they aren't the best out there. There is a guy you can sell your items to, but by the time you get to them even the most expensive items will only get you a pittance. You can get a storage box from the merchant in the Undead Burg or from the blacksmith, or you can drop the items, or you can hang onto them because only items equipped on your body matter.
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Dec 16, 2012 20:02
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Question Mark Mound posted:Hm, I might backtrack back to the merchant then if grenades become very important. I think I picked up a spear out of a chest at one point early on. I'm just a little after that now where I got the Black Knight's shield at the top of a spiral staircase, went all Hakuna Matata on Pumba's rear end, then beat some dude with a massive shield. FYI that Black Knight Shield is better than the ones I was suggesting, if you can use it. The way you tell is to go to equip it and hit (Square? it's X on the 360 controller) to bring up the stat screen. The most important stat on shields is called "Stability". What it does is reduce the amount of stamina damage you take from an attack, so you need fewer points of stamina to endure an attack without having your guard broken. You don't need firebombs. They're handy sometimes but you don't need them. Right now priority one for you is getting the bonfire in the Parish. You're very close to it, as well as the blacksmith.
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Dec 16, 2012 22:20
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Yeah I think my phrasing was poor. I didn't mean that's how you can tell if you can use it(your stat requirements are on the same page, if you don't meet one it appears in red), the stability is how you tell if it's one of the best shields 
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Dec 16, 2012 23:06
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Dec 17, 2012 02:01
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Cardboard Fox posted:I was just looking at the November PS+ free games that were available. Did the EU guys really get both Arkham City and Vanquish in 1 month? That's crazy lucky. Yeah it's loving terrible! SFIVAE and KOF being on there is good for me because I want to play them but I would really LOVE to play Vanquish and the used prices are just a tad high for such a short game when I have a bunch of other stuff I need to get. Renoistic posted:Next EU store update gives PS+ users the game "Knytt Underground". Has anyone heard of it? I don't know anything about Knytt Underground but Knytt Stories is a loving fantastic metroidvania-esque game focusing on exploration and atmosphere rather than fighting dudes.
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Dec 18, 2012 22:56
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Captain Walker posted:Somebody Renegade interrupt me if I get Dragon Age 3 sight unseen after this, tia If you like hyper macho drama check out Sleeping Dogs. From what I've heard about Far Cry 3, though, the story is so bad it almost ruins the game.
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Dec 19, 2012 03:13
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The writing wasn't that great but it was decent as far as video games go. There's a lot of "Hey, we need to make a mission to promote x gameplay, write something quick for that" and yeah it's cliche but it's overall I feel like it's a story that you actually sit through the cutscenes for. The voice acting goes a long way honestly.
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Dec 19, 2012 05:11
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Just finished Journey about two hours ago. I definitely enjoyed it a lot and can see why it just won GOTY from ign and gets all this praise heaped upon it. Totally gorgeous game, probably one of the best looking games ever. I say that as a total graphics whore who has to actively deal with the fact that ps3 games are in 720p as opposed to my pc's 1080.
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Dec 22, 2012 10:15
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Is the Ratchet and Clank game on PS Plus any good?
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Dec 24, 2012 05:04
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Housh posted:Binary Domain worth $20? I love the Yakuza games and I'm a fan of 3rd person cover base shooting in games like Uncharted. I've never played Yakuza but I played Binary Domain on the PC(Got it for about $10 earlier this year) and I thought it was pretty awesome. The shooting is decent, just make sure you shoot for limbs and heads, and the story is really fun pulpy sci-fi. The story and the characters really surprised me because they definitely get more interesting than the average game/story of this type. Not Shakespeare, but worth the money to me.
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Dec 24, 2012 21:55
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Feenix posted:It's funny that BD is as solid (or great) as it is (so say most people) I was on an early Focus Group for that game and it was pretty awful at that point and everyone in the group let the game have it. Are you allowed to say what was wrong with it?
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Dec 25, 2012 03:15
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Why did sucker punch think the story of infamous 2 was good enough to justify making the cutscenes unskippable 
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Dec 25, 2012 05:46
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Dan Didio posted:They're probably load screens in disguise. It takes it maybe 4-5 seconds to load into their cutscene-less user generated content so I don't think it's all load screens. I'm not even sure I'm going to give this game much more of a chance, though. This game is clearly targeted at someone else.
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Dec 25, 2012 06:41
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I also beat it in one sitting, can't recommend doing otherwise.
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Dec 26, 2012 08:35
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Renoistic posted:I just tried Knytt Underground which I got for free with PSN plus. Think Cave Story with no combat, and Super Meat Boy with forgiving difficulty and the ability to climb every wall, and a huge place to explore. A lot of places are closed off at the beginning but about an hour into the game you get some abilities which makes the whole map open for exploration. The graphics and design are... unique, the music pretty chill and the whole game manages to be both sort of relaxing and seriously addictive! Try it out if you have the chance. Have you played Knytt Stories and if so how does it compare?
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Dec 27, 2012 00:41
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Dominic White posted:It's less like Knytt Stories, and more like a mash-up of Nifflas' other games. It's part Knytt, part Within A Deep Forest and part Nightsky. Well, that sounds pretty cool. I like that guy's games quite a bit so I'll put this on my list. Housh posted:I never played Mass Effect because I thought it was some nerdy RPG and I don't have the patience or am too stupid for that genre. It's a little more RPG than Call of Duty loadouts. You don't even have to choose how to build your character if you don't want to. For reference I'm a huge RPG dork and I didn't take to Mass Effect very much after the first one(granted, I haven't played the third) because it just doesn't have as much RPG stuff in there as I would want.
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Dec 27, 2012 03:26
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It's kind of sad actually, as far as I can tell the "correct" class to choose if you want to have fun is Vanguard. Is it even a matter of preference?
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Dec 27, 2012 05:23
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You guys. Oh my god. Tokyo jungle is amazing. I just started it last night and I can't stop thinking about it. If I weren't at work I'd be playing right now.
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Dec 31, 2012 23:21
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Speedball posted:So I got a copy of Crysis via the PSN a while, only just started playing it for real here. I, uh... it seems...
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Dec 31, 2012 23:29
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Yeah, their camo is certainly effective on PC but not that effective. I bet the low resolution is making it harder.
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Jan 1, 2013 00:24
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FanaticalMilk posted:Tidbits of new info about Dark Souls II Am I reading this wrong? quote:In regards to how Dark Souls II will connect to its predecessor, it will take place in the same world, although it won’t be a direct sequel. The story will take place in a different area with different people. Shibuya decided to stick to the original Dark Souls map style, instead of opting for an open-open world. As far as recurring characters go, not much can be said for the time being.
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Jan 3, 2013 03:18
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Why would that be a typo? It's just describing the Dark Souls style interconnected passageways with the occasional clearing rather than the Skyrim-style "turn and walk in any direction and you'll find the edge of the world". Hence why it says open-open and not just open.
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Jan 3, 2013 03:22
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Ineffiable posted:So can we take it as 'Nothing to worry about, let's move on and wait for Dark Souls 2 with even more anticipation?' Well, to be honest I really wouldn't mind him putting his own stamp on it. Nobody wants to see this franchise turn into another yearly sequel type of thing where they have to put up a bulleted list of what's new like in Madden. I think Demon's Souls and Dark Souls have very distinct personalities while at the same time being obviously cut from the same cloth, and I hope Dark Souls 2 is the same way.
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Jan 3, 2013 03:34
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King's Field was cool and all but if they had anything like the current Souls design, first person would be utterly worthless, even suicidal.
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Jan 3, 2013 05:51
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precision posted:I seriously don't understand how anyone has fond memories of the King's Field games. All I remember is boring and dull. Actually, I would have guessed that someone who prefers Demon's Souls(which is not at all a crazy opinion) would be more likely to enjoy King's Field. The atmosphere of those games is similar. The combat isn't, of course. Dominic White posted:Chrome Hounds was dead on arrival. In large part due to how astoundingly bad the gaming press handled it. It got a bunch of sub-50% review scores that literally played only the singleplayer tutorial, which amounts to about 5 short missions with first-generation (woefully underpowered) tech. Some of the war stuff was cool, but I and my group of friends ultimately didn't enjoy the competitive side of the multiplayer. It didn't feel like the hound class system really got any use because the best hounds were always weird hybrids, so we just played against bots. That was reasonably fun, and you could make some very goofy mechs so that was cool. I think if I had to rate it I'd give it a 3/5 and I don't see any reason why there needs to be a Chrome Hounds 2.
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Jan 3, 2013 22:18
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Time has not been kind to those games.
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Jan 3, 2013 22:35
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Holy poo poo, right analog stick camera control alone would flip the script on those games.
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Jan 3, 2013 22:50
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Electromax posted:Shadow Tower Abyss was a successor to Kings Field on PS2 that allowed that. You even got a gun. It's probably IMO the best KF style game out there, better than KF 4. Yeah I've heard a lot about Shadow Tower Abyss. Now that there's an english translation I'm strongly considering checking it out. Gotta play through all these other games first.
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Jan 4, 2013 01:03
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Jamesman posted:Does Dark Souls have any of the bullshit that Demon's Souls had? And I going to have to replay it a bajillion times and farm for super-rare items or do dumb poo poo to get worlds into pure white or something? Or can I just have fun with it? Farming and replaying is pretty minimal compared to Demon's Souls in my opinion. There's no tendency of any kind and nothing in the game similar to it.
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Jan 7, 2013 09:43
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Furthermore Symphony of the Night is amazing, one of the best games ever. Don't farm up a crissaegrim or whatever, that's stupid. You might as well play Everquest.
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Jan 8, 2013 00:17
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How is the PSN version of Symphony of the Night? Is it updated in any way?
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Jan 8, 2013 00:23
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weird bleep posted:It's a PS1 Classic, so it's completely unchanged. The XBLA version is different and has the FMV removed due to the size restraints on games at the time. I was hoping there was a nice HD version. Oh well.
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Jan 8, 2013 00:38
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Jamesman posted:Well that's what I was asking. Also, that sucks because Demon's Souls was pretty fun but not when you replayed it 5 times in a row and spent 10 hours killing sky mantas for rare drops. Was hoping Dark Souls wouldn't be like that. I seriously do not think there is anything in the game that will take 10 hours to farm. Nothing.
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Jan 8, 2013 11:47
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Good deal. I played that game on PC a while back and thought it was solid.
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Jan 14, 2013 21:23
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Jimbot posted:Did they move the A team to Last of Us and had interns design the combat scenarios for this game or something? Yes.
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VarrosAnon posted:People spelled doom with the Vita in 2012, but I think the Vita is an excellent rebranding of the Playstation line and people are starting to take notice. Not to derail the ps4 discussion but as much as I want to like the vita, if they don't have some serious poo poo to show at E3, the Vita is hosed.
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